By Heinrich Domingo

It is a shame to see a capable cast acting in a ridiculous plot. Derek Ramsay and Kiray Celis’ outstanding performance seems ill-fitting on a hastily sewed story. While Love is Blind lectures the crowd on loving outside physical appearance, it stereotypes farmers as poor and laid-back and artists as hipsters and unattractive. It is a film that assumes the role of being progressive while encouraging that there is a single definition of beauty. Irony and hypocrisy became this movie’s theme.

by Lei Landicho

Much has been said about Filipino independent films being mirrors of reality; being bastions of hope for what’s left of Pinoy creativity. In this age when indie films are placed on a pedestal, one film boldly exposes every nook and cranny of unapologetic, budget-bound, and “honest” filmmaking. Ang Babae sa Septic Tank relishes and abhors itself at the same time for bearing the tag of an “Indie.” Continue reading →